Not a big question, but my party is about to face a mediocre bard in this module, and his tactics stats says he casts blink on himself in the first round, well this encounter occurs on the second floor of a building... Is he instantly going to fall through the floor which is, based on my limited knowledge of architecture less than 5ft. thick?
While blinking, you can step through (but not see through) solid objects. For each 5 feet of solid material you walk through, there is a 50% chance that you become material. If this occurs, you are shunted off to the nearest open space and take 1d6 points of damage per 5 feet so traveled.
I am imagining because of gravity, he'd fall through. Period. Which is not the intended effect I'm assuming.
You temporarily become ethereal when you use blink. From the blink spell:
An ethereal creature is invisible, incorporeal, and capable of moving in any direction, even up or down. As an incorporeal creature, you can move through solid objects, including living creatures.
So no, while ethereal, he's not falling through anything. Not unless he wants to.
Figured it was a simple misconclusion. Thanks Brew!
Could certainly make for some interesting tactics. :D
He could certainly choose to.
But, by default, he's no more going to fall through the floor than he would sink into the ground.